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Re: Load average of 0
From: |
Pavel Janík |
Subject: |
Re: Load average of 0 |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 07:51:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) |
From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:49:34 -0700 (MST)
> I haven't found anything on this issue in emacs-devel.mbox (even
before my
> original mail), can you please tell me the original author of this? I'd
> like to convince her/him that this can be really annoying.
>
> Sorry, what is the issue here? What behavior are you complaining
> about?
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In the previous months I have sometimes seen a very unfriendly behaviour of
mode-line. It seemed to me, that something silently disappeared from the
mode-line. So the left part of the mode-line after that action was at the
same place and the right part of the mode-line moved to the left (because
something disappeared).
Today, I have played with load-average (display-time) and finally found
it. It is load-average. When it is 0, it is removed from the mode-line. Do
you think it is good? Normal load-average is displayed as `0.80' ie. four
characters. When the load-average is zero, these four characters are
removed from the mode-line along with the preceding space so the right part
of the mode-line is moved by 5 characters. I found it distracting. When it
happened in the past, I always thought about the reason...
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I think it is better to display "0.00" in that case. And maybe even better
is to use " " (ie. spaces). I do not have strong opinion here
yet. I have to try both (which I will do soon).
--
Pavel Janík
Identify bad input; recover if possible.
-- The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)
- Load average of 0, Pavel Janík, 2001/12/15
- Re: Load average of 0, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2001/12/16
- Re: Load average of 0, Pavel Janík, 2001/12/16
- Re: Load average of 0, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2001/12/16
- Re: Load average of 0, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/17
- Re: Load average of 0,
Pavel Janík <=
- Re: Load average of 0, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/18
- Re: Load average of 0, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/18
- Re: Load average of 0, Pavel Janík, 2001/12/20
- Re: Load average of 0, Pavel Janík, 2001/12/20
- Re: Load average of 0, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/21
Re: Load average of 0, Alex Schroeder, 2001/12/16